Sunday, July 8, 2012

Operation Uranus

Back at it – I thought I’d run some Savage Worlds Skirmishy
games over the summer. I’m sure the East Front campaign will pop up now and
again…

North West of Stalingrad, 19 November 1942

SITUATION

BPO Psykiks have detected the
presence of strong supernatural energies to the North West of Staligrad behind
the Italian lines. A diversionary attack has been arranged early in the day to
the east so resistance should be minimal. The Team had the option of going
during daylight or waiting until night. They chose to go during daylight hours
and scary things always happen at NIGHT! So the small BPO team basically
executed a frontal assault on dug in Italians…

Things could have (SHOULD have)
gone very, very badly for our heroes – advancing in the open, in broad
daylight, against an entrenched enemy…

A clever combination of
extremely lucky shots aided and abetted by a number of Jokers (Trotsky’s squad
got TWO in the first four turns or so!?)

They were effectively able
neutralize opposition at their end of the trenchline by severly wounding the
caporal (with a submachinegun, rocknroll, and a shooting of d8 – which in
concert couldhave messed them up!) and the MG team (which also could have
messed them up!)

Ths others also got some extremely
lucky shots in – taking out Italians in the trenches while shooting at them on
the run!? (had to use german casualty figures as I don’t have any dead/wounded Italians…)

The Scout section wasn’t so
lucky…

They were shot up pretty good…
but the wildcard characters were able to make it to the trench relatively
unscathed… (though short a few bennies!)

Trotsky’s DP gunner continued to
fire while his loader was shaken and rolled three ones – jamming the gun! They weren’t
able to unjam it for a number of turns…

The Soviet BPO team made it to
the Italins trenchline and the few remaining Italians surrendered – it was at
that point that they started taking fire from the woods beyond!

Unfortunately it was at that
point that I stopped taking pictures apparently….

Anyway, there was a veteran
squad of SS troopers there that covered the escape of… well.. whatever dark and
mysterious evil was lurking within
the woods… MWA-HA-HA-Ha-Ha-ha-ha-haaaaaa….

Stepanoff’s Scout team suffered
four (of five!) casualties, one was killed in action, the other three were
lightly wounded and will return to play after missing one game. Trotsky’s squad
suffered two casualties – one seriously wounded, the other lightly wounded. The
seriously wounded rifleman will join the two previously seriously wounded
riflemen – who remained in grave condition and will miss further games…

Cpl. Spagetti was seriously
wounded when he surrendered, two others of his squad surrendered. Of the rest
four were killed in action, two suffered serious wounds, and one was only
lightly wounded. The Italian POWs were unable to tell the BPO anything about
what was going on in the woods. They said the SS didn’t allow them anywhere
near it – they’d even shot one of their squad mates who’d wandered over to the
edge of the woods to piss a couple days earlier.

Three of the SS were killed in
action, three were seriously wounded and in no condition to talk so they were
summarily executed. Whowever else had been there had packed up quickly and
scarpered. All that remained in the woods was an alter of some sort. The BPO
team thought that looked like some sort of sacrificial alter, but there was no
trace of blood or any other indication that it had been used as such…

Risk was pretty excited as this
was the first character he ever had that made it to Veteran.